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...work. I hed to give that up. Now I cain't hardly lug a bucket of water, and that not fur. I cain't hardly git up on a chair and haul window blinds. I give myself 'bout a year. I know I'm goin'. I'm not foolin' myself. But there's no use cryin' 'bout that now, is they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silicosis | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...goin' to whip you," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mountain Murder | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Metropolitan: "Goin' To Town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Screen | 5/22/1935 | See Source »

Least important factor in the West formula are the stories she writes herself, showing her surrounded by ineffectual admirers. In Goin' to Town, she has seven of these. A cattle-town belle who inherits a fortune in Buenos Aires, she makes herself a social success in Southampton, L. I. by giving a ball at which she sings a duet from Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, climaxes her career by marrying a British earl (Paul Cavanagh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...allowed her a contract for a percentage of her pictures' profits as well as a salary. When her first pictures were an enormous hit, Hollywood labeled her a fad, but instead of declining like most fads, Mae West ceased to be one, became a U. S. institution. Goin' to Town, unlikely to increase or diminish her prestige as America's sweethot, should delight those of Actress West's admirers who are especially entranced by her facility in making a stale gag seem fresh by reciting it as though its real meaning were unprintable. Good shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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